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Jiabao Zhao

赵家宝

Artist, Australia

Zhao Jia Bao is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist shaping sculptural worlds where computation meets material intuition. Moving between installation, animation, and spatial environments, his practice traces cultural memory and the symbolic 

architectures of contemporary urban life.

Working with digital fabrication, ceramics, biomaterials, and spatial design, he creates future relics—forms suspended between mythology, civic space, and modern culture. His featured work, Knight of Elements, extends this hybrid language through ritual, transformation, and elemental force.


He also leads RandomPlayer Lab, a collaborative platform exploring new intersections of art, design, material research, and emerging technologies.


Knights of the Elements – Fire Spiritreimagines the Chinese chess horse and Western knight as hybrid mythological fgures moving between cultural systems, historical traditions, and imagined futures. Developed for the City of Sydney Lunar Festival and produced through high-precision 3D ceramic printing with traditional Jingdezhen glazing, the sculpture embodies intentional ambiguity —ancient yet futuristic, familiar yet strange —refecting cultural identity as continual movement, adaptation, and transformation.

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Prestige Collection

Immerse yourself in a curated collection where modern technology meets refined aesthetics. Highlighting the artist's finest work, each piece is brought to life through advanced 3D canvas print technology rather than traditional canvas print. Every artwork showcased is available for purchase, inviting you to weave this remarkable visual beauty into your daily surroundings.

The Six Elements Collection

An evocative six-piece 3D textured canvas collection, uniting the strategic symbolism of the Knight with the primal forces of nature to cultivate abundance and spatial equilibrium.

Masterfully interweaving the tactile finishes of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Marble, the artworks form a continuous loop of elemental harmony.

Conceived as a striking focal point for your interior, this modern surrealist installation infuses any environment with profound architectural balance and dynamic resonance.

Earth

Knights of Elements – The Animation is a moving image work developed from the ongoing Knights of Elements cross-media series exploring mythology, cultural memory, and symbolic transformation through digital sculpture and speculative world-building. Combining atmospheric environments, animated sculptural forms, and elemental visual systems, the work reinterprets the horse as a contemporary mythological figure situated between Eastern and Western symbolic traditions. Through motion, light, and digitally constructed landscapes, the animation investigates how cultural identities evolve across migration, technology, ritual, and imagined future realities.

Fire

Knights of Elements – The Animation is a moving image work developed from the ongoing Knights of Elements cross-media series exploring mythology, cultural memory, and symbolic transformation through digital sculpture and speculative world-building. Combining atmospheric environments, animated sculptural forms, and elemental visual systems, the work reinterprets the horse as a contemporary mythological figure situated between Eastern and Western symbolic traditions. Through motion, light, and digitally constructed landscapes, the animation investigates how cultural identities evolve across migration, technology, ritual, and imagined future realities.

Water

Knights of Elements – The Animation is a moving image work developed from the ongoing Knights of Elements cross-media series exploring mythology, cultural memory, and symbolic transformation through digital sculpture and speculative world-building. Combining atmospheric environments, animated sculptural forms, and elemental visual systems, the work reinterprets the horse as a contemporary mythological figure situated between Eastern and Western symbolic traditions. Through motion, light, and digitally constructed landscapes, the animation investigates how cultural identities evolve across migration, technology, ritual, and imagined future realities.

Wood

Knights of Elements – The Animation is a moving image work developed from the ongoing Knights of Elements cross-media series exploring mythology, cultural memory, and symbolic transformation through digital sculpture and speculative world-building. Combining atmospheric environments, animated sculptural forms, and elemental visual systems, the work reinterprets the horse as a contemporary mythological figure situated between Eastern and Western symbolic traditions. Through motion, light, and digitally constructed landscapes, the animation investigates how cultural identities evolve across migration, technology, ritual, and imagined future realities.

Metal

Knights of Elements – The Animation is a moving image work developed from the ongoing Knights of Elements cross-media series exploring mythology, cultural memory, and symbolic transformation through digital sculpture and speculative world-building. Combining atmospheric environments, animated sculptural forms, and elemental visual systems, the work reinterprets the horse as a contemporary mythological figure situated between Eastern and Western symbolic traditions. Through motion, light, and digitally constructed landscapes, the animation investigates how cultural identities evolve across migration, technology, ritual, and imagined future realities.

Family

Knights of Elements – The Animation is a moving image work developed from the ongoing Knights of Elements cross-media series exploring mythology, cultural memory, and symbolic transformation through digital sculpture and speculative world-building. Combining atmospheric environments, animated sculptural forms, and elemental visual systems, the work reinterprets the horse as a contemporary mythological figure situated between Eastern and Western symbolic traditions. Through motion, light, and digitally constructed landscapes, the animation investigates how cultural identities evolve across migration, technology, ritual, and imagined future realities.

Steel

Knights of Elements is the central sculptural manifestation of the ongoing Knights of Elements project, a cross-media body of work exploring mythology, cultural memory, migration, and symbolic transformation through digital and physical forms.

Originally developed for the City of Sydney Lunar Festival, the project reimagines the symbolic relationship between the horse of Chinese chess and the knight of Western chess, transforming them into contemporary mythological figures that exist between cultural systems, historical traditions, and speculative futures. Rather than presenting identity as fixed or singular, Knights of Elements considers culture as something continuously reshaped through movement, exchange, adaptation, and reinvention.

Produced through high-precision 3D ceramic printing and traditional glazing in Jingdezhen, China, Fire Spirit embodies this condition of transition. Suspended between digitally generated form and centuries-old ceramic knowledge, the sculpture exists in a state of intentional ambiguity — simultaneously ancient and futuristic, familiar and unfamiliar, grounded and floating.

The work reflects on the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural realities at once. Like a piece caught between worlds, the figure resists fixed definitions of origin, belonging, or identity. Instead, it occupies a liminal space where memory, tradition, technology, and imagination intersect. Through this suspended condition, Fire Spirit proposes cultural identity not as a destination, but as an ongoing process of transformation.

Knights of Elements - Fire Spirit

Knights of Elements – Fire Spirit is the central sculptural manifestation of the ongoing Knights of Elements project, a cross-media body of work exploring mythology, cultural memory, migration, and symbolic transformation through digital and physical forms.

Originally developed for the City of Sydney Lunar Festival, the project reimagines the symbolic relationship between the horse of Chinese chess and the knight of Western chess, transforming them into contemporary mythological figures that exist between cultural systems, historical traditions, and speculative futures. Rather than presenting identity as fixed or singular, Knights of Elements considers culture as something continuously reshaped through movement, exchange, adaptation, and reinvention.

Produced through high-precision 3D ceramic printing and traditional glazing in Jingdezhen, China, Fire Spirit embodies this condition of transition. Suspended between digitally generated form and centuries-old ceramic knowledge, the sculpture exists in a state of intentional ambiguity — simultaneously ancient and futuristic, familiar and unfamiliar, grounded and floating.

The work reflects on the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural realities at once. Like a piece caught between worlds, the figure resists fixed definitions of origin, belonging, or identity. Instead, it occupies a liminal space where memory, tradition, technology, and imagination intersect. Through this suspended condition, Fire Spirit proposes cultural identity not as a destination, but as an ongoing process of transformation.

Knights of Elements - Fire Spirit

Knights of Elements – Fire Spirit is the central sculptural manifestation of the ongoing Knights of Elements project, a cross-media body of work exploring mythology, cultural memory, migration, and symbolic transformation through digital and physical forms.

Originally developed for the City of Sydney Lunar Festival, the project reimagines the symbolic relationship between the horse of Chinese chess and the knight of Western chess, transforming them into contemporary mythological figures that exist between cultural systems, historical traditions, and speculative futures. Rather than presenting identity as fixed or singular, Knights of Elements considers culture as something continuously reshaped through movement, exchange, adaptation, and reinvention.

Produced through high-precision 3D ceramic printing and traditional glazing in Jingdezhen, China, Fire Spirit embodies this condition of transition. Suspended between digitally generated form and centuries-old ceramic knowledge, the sculpture exists in a state of intentional ambiguity — simultaneously ancient and futuristic, familiar and unfamiliar, grounded and floating.

The work reflects on the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural realities at once. Like a piece caught between worlds, the figure resists fixed definitions of origin, belonging, or identity. Instead, it occupies a liminal space where memory, tradition, technology, and imagination intersect. Through this suspended condition, Fire Spirit proposes cultural identity not as a destination, but as an ongoing process of transformation.

Knights of Elements - Fire Spirit

Knights of Elements – Fire Spirit is the central sculptural manifestation of the ongoing Knights of Elements project, a cross-media body of work exploring mythology, cultural memory, migration, and symbolic transformation through digital and physical forms.

Originally developed for the City of Sydney Lunar Festival, the project reimagines the symbolic relationship between the horse of Chinese chess and the knight of Western chess, transforming them into contemporary mythological figures that exist between cultural systems, historical traditions, and speculative futures. Rather than presenting identity as fixed or singular, Knights of Elements considers culture as something continuously reshaped through movement, exchange, adaptation, and reinvention.

Produced through high-precision 3D ceramic printing and traditional glazing in Jingdezhen, China, Fire Spirit embodies this condition of transition. Suspended between digitally generated form and centuries-old ceramic knowledge, the sculpture exists in a state of intentional ambiguity — simultaneously ancient and futuristic, familiar and unfamiliar, grounded and floating.

The work reflects on the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural realities at once. Like a piece caught between worlds, the figure resists fixed definitions of origin, belonging, or identity. Instead, it occupies a liminal space where memory, tradition, technology, and imagination intersect. Through this suspended condition, Fire Spirit proposes cultural identity not as a destination, but as an ongoing process of transformation.

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